Dissertations from 2003
Your blues ain't like mine: exploring the promotion and tenure process of African American female professors at select Research I universities in the South, Tonetta Beloney-Morrison
Optimization of the light dynamics in the Hydraulically Integrated Serial Turbidostat Algal Reactor (HISTAR), Barbara Christine Benson
The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip, Kristen Marie Berkos
The relationship between selected housing and demographic charateristics and employment status among rural, low-income families, Ann Allgood Berry
Reticent romans: silence and writing in La Vie de Saint Alexis, Le Conte du Graal, and Le Roman de Silence, Evan J. Bibbee
Matthaeus Pipelare's "Fors seulement chanson (II)" and its related motet and mass performance editions and commentary, George H. Black, Jr.
Bureaucratic influence in congressional roll-call voting, William Blair
Book embeddings of graphs, Robin Leigh Blankenship
Characteristics of fat free yogurt as influenced by the incorporation of folic acid, Charles August Boeneke
An examination of the relationship between the acceptability and reported use of accommodations for students with disabilities by general education teachers and teachers' sense of efficacy, Bonnie Smith Boulton
Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs, Lolita Cecelia Boykin
Deficit politics and democratic unity: the saga of Tip O'Neill, Jim Wright, and the conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives during the Reagand Era, Karl Gerard Brandt
A role for Constitutive Pathogen Resistance5 in promoting cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Ginger Marie Brininstool
A structured content analysis of five contemporary etude books for the violin, Michael Kim Buckles
Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed in the Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication classrooms, Jacqueline D. Burleson
The bardic utterance in situation comedy theme songs, 1960-2000, Joni Melissa Butcher
Constraint preserving boundary conditions for the linearized Einstein equations, Gioel Calabrese
The effects of an evening structured problem-solving procedure in undergraduate college students with insomnia, Colleen E. Carney
Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s, Courtney Patterson Carney
Beyond the solid South: southern members of Congress and the Vietnam War, Mark David Carson
The novelty of improvisation: towards a genre of embodied spontaneity, David Alfred Charles
Cross-cultural construct validation of the learning transfer system inventory in Tawian, Hsin-Chih Chen
Role of endothelin-1 in the gastrointestinal tract of horses in health and disease, Ramaswamy Monickarasi Chidambaram
Frank Ferko's The Hildegard motets: a conductor's preparatory guide, David Neil Childs
"Above the noise and the glory": tiers of propaganda in great war literature, Margaret L. Clark
Uncovering strata: an investigation into the graphic innovations of geologist Henry T. De la Beche, Renee M. Clary
Population structure and genetics of longevity in a colony of dog guides, John B. Cole
Dashiki Project Theatre: black identity and beyond, Stanley R. Coleman
Black willow (Salix nigra) use in phytoremediation techniques to remove the herbicide bentazon from shallow groundwater, Robert Mark Conger
Thrips species composition in Louisiana cotton and associated management strategies, Donald Ray Cook
A study of dropout characteristics and school-level effects on dropout prevention, Mindy L. Crain-Dorough
Literacy as a performing art: a phenomenological study of oral dramatic reading, Neva Virginia Cramer
Local land use on Borneo: applications of indigenous knowledge systems and natural resource utilization among the Benuaq Dayak of Kalimantan, Indonesia, Stacy Marie Crevello
Diffusion of a rodlike virus in complex solutions, Randall Charles Cush
Effects of submergence and hypoxia on the growth and anatomy of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings, Denise M. D'Abundo
Gender differences in participation of physical activities: a comprehensive model approach, Kay Gordon Daigle
Where have all the flowers gone?: a modular systems perspective of IT infrastructure design and productivity, Pratim Datta
The Louisiana Calf-to-Carcass program: growth and carcass traits, James E. Devillier
The invasive tropical shrub Clidemia hirta (Melastomataceae) in its native and introduced ranges: tests of hypotheses of invasion, Saara Jennie DeWalt
De la page d'écriture et du mythe de l'ancêtre rebelle: la problématique de l'écrite et de la parole dans le roman francophone ouest africain, Boubakary Diakite
Finite-horizon operations planning for a lean supply chain system, Ahmad Diponegoro
Evaluation of government interventions in Ghana's forest product trade: a post-intervention impact assessment and perceptions of marketing implications, Ben Nathan Donkor
"Magic City" class, community, and reform in Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912, Paul R. Dotson, Jr.
The relationship between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and insomnia: implications for treatment, Danae L. Drab
The epidemiology of shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Louisiana cattle, and white-tailed deer, John Robert Dunn
Global expression analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans' response to ionizing radiation: irrE is a novel regulator of this response, Ashlee M. Earl
Rotary kiln incineration of hazardous wastes: pilot-scale studies at Louisiana State University, John Sutherland Earle
Biology and ecology of Leptographium species and their vectos as components of loblolly pine decline, Lori G. Eckhardt
Arm crank power and hyperammonemia in respones to L-Aspartic Acid supplementation, William W. Edwards
On implementing dynamically reconfigurable architectures, Hatem Mahmoud El-Sayed El-Boghdadi
From lime kilns to art galleries: a historical anthropogeography of the Maine Coast City of Rockland, William Francis Fagan
Synchrotron radiation as a probe of chemical information using novel experimental configurations, George Farquar
Southern opposition to civil rights in the United States Senate: a tactical and ideological analysis, 1938-1965, Keith M. Finley
Reporting the movement in black and white: the Emmett Till lynching and the Montgomery bus boycott, John Craig Flournoy
The role of imagined interaction and self-efficacay in psychosocial adjustment to spousal bereavement: a communication perspective, Sherry Greenwood Ford
Psychosocial predictors of dietary fat reduction: the role of stress and the transtheroetical model in a dietary intervention, Jennifer L. Francis
Conservation versus survival: a cultural ecological study of changing settlement patterns, cultures, and land use in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve of northeast Honduras, Elizabeth Ann Fraser
Design and synthesis of handles for solid-phase peptide synthesis and convergent peptide synthesis, Jose Giraldes
Solute transport in a porous medium: a mass-conserving solution for the convection-dispersion equation in a finite domain, William Golz
Perceptions of stereotypes in Hispanic children's literature, Nancy Gomez
An examination of individual and organizational factors related to emotional labor, Robin Hughes Gosserand
The means of ignorance: genuine dialogue and a rhetoric of virtue, Daniel Anthony Grano
Machine learning techniques for efficient query processing in kowledge base systems, Kevin Paul Grant
A phonological awareness intervention for at-risk preschoolers: the effects of supplemental, intensive small-group instruction, Lisa Oliver Guidry
Teacher and student perceptions of online instructional methodology in higher education: an explanatory mixed-method study, Fred Arthur Guillot
Characterization of syntactic foams and their sandwich composites: modeling and experimental approaches, Nikhil Gupta
Translating "Hebrew" into "Greek": the discursive hermeneutics of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic readings, Matthew Wayne Guy
Language, identity and the achievement gap: comparing experiences of African-American students in a French immersion and a regular education context, Michelle Georgette Haj-Broussard
A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the National Endowment for Democracy, Eric T. Hale
Local government and society in early modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-- 1630, Jeffery R. Hankins
The Kauffman bracket skein module of the quaternionic manifold, John Michael Harris
Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and the problem of Christian order: a critical appraisal, Jeffrey Charles Herndon
On the geometry and topology of moduli spaces of multi-polygonal linkages, Michael Edward Holcomb
Will the real Jesus please stand up?: bridging the divide between the Jesus Seminar and its opponents through a Burkeian approach, Carol Melissa Hopson-Sparks
Potential functionality and digestibility of oryzanol as determined using in vitro cell culture models, Chih-chun Jean Huang
Two essays on corporate hedging: the choice of instruments and methods, Pinghsun Huang
The dual paths of a political movement: convergence and divergence in contemporary conservative public address, Lyman Davis Hunt
Regimes, institutions and foreign policy change, David Baker Huxsoll
The impact of whole-plant instruction preservice elementary teachers' understanding of plant science principles, Christine Collins Hypolite
The effect of environmental context on performance outcomes and movement coordination changes during the learning of complex motor skills, Jennifer Johnson Jeansonne
An Africanist-Orientalist discourse: the other in Shakespeare and Hellenistic tragedy, Haegap Jeoung
The effects of employee service quality provision and customer personality traits on customer participation, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions, Jeannie Denise John
Advanced turbulence modeling for industrial flows, Raymond Michael Jones
Power and empowerment in writing center conferences, Kerri Stanley Jordan
Further validation of the Child Routines Inventory (CRI): relationship to parenting practices, maternal distress, and child externalizing behavior, Sara Sytsma Jordan
Level of essentialness of a node in flowcharts and its application to program testing, Osman Kandara
Splitter theorems for 3- and 4-regular graphs, Jinko Kanno
Treatment of chlorinated volatile organic compounds using wetland systems, Gabriel Roderick Kassenga
The effects of signals on responding during delayed reinforcement, Michael E. Kelley
Identifying skills needed by office information systems graduates in the changing work environment: perceptions of administrative support occupations workers, Margaret Sepulvado Kilcoyne
Atomic and electronic structure of bulk intermetallic and heteroepitaxially grown surface alloys, Orhan Kizilkaya
The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, R. Vanessa Krasner
Self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectation correlates of college students' intention certainty, Carol Couvillion Landry
Using self-determination theory to understand African American women's physical activity patterns, Joan B. Landry
The effect on water quality of riverine input into coastal wetlands, Robert Raymond Lane
Group theoretical approach to pairing and non-linear phenomena in atomic nuclei, Kristina D. Launey